Lady&#39;s hose-supporter.



No. 709,606. Patented Sept. 23, I902.

L. A. NEGBAVAL. LADY S HOSE SUPPORTER.

(Application filed July 8, 1902.) (No Model.)

UNITED STATES a'rnnr Orrrcn.

LOUIS A. NEGRAVAL, OF JERSEY CITY, NElV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO FRANK &GUTMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A FIRM.

LADYS HOSE-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,606, datedSeptember 23, 1902.

Application filed July 3, 1902. Serial No. 114,183. (No model.)

To all whowt it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS A. NEGRAVAL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of NewJersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in LadiesHose-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in ladies hose-supporters; and ithas for its object to provide a supporter which comprises a belt forembracing the waist of the wearer, supporting-straps for engaging thestockings, and a single plate for connecting the belt and straps at apoint over the abdomen of the wearer for serving the double purpose ofsupporting the stockings and insuring the correct position ot'thewearer.

A further object is to provide a hose-sup porter of the above characterwhich will be entirely independent of the corset of the wearer, so as topermit the ready adjustment of the plate which connects thesupportingstraps and belt to the difierent positions assumed by thewearer. V

A still further object is to provide a novel form of plate forconnecting the supportingstraps and belt, whereby the supportingstrapsmay be composed of a single strip secured to the plate by interweavingthe strip and crossing it, thus obviating the necessity of stitching thestrip in its position.

Another object is to provide a plate of the above character in which oneend of the belt is secured permanently to the plate obliquely thereto.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front View of thehose-supporter, showing the position which it would assume when in use,the body of the wearer being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is anenlarged detail front view of the adjacent ends of the belt, the upperportion of the supporting-straps, and the plate for connecting thestraps and belt. Fig. 3 is a back View of the same, and Fig. 4: is asection taken in the plane of the line A A of Fig. 2 looking in thedirection of the arrows.

The supportingstraps of the hosesupporter are denoted by 1 and 2, eachof which straps may be provided at its lower end with two elasticbranches 3 and 4, provided with clasps 5 and 6 for securing thesupporter to the stockings of the wearer.

The belt of the hose-supporter is denoted by 7, which belt is adapted tobe secured around the waist of the wearer and connected to the upperends of the supporting-straps 1 and 2.

The means which I have shown for connecting the supporting-straps 1 and2 of the belt 7 comprises a metallic plate, which is constructed andattached to the said straps and belt, as follows: The head of the plateis denoted by 8, and it is provided with two slots 9 and 10, arranged atan angle to the vertical line through the plate. One end 11 of the belt'7 is interwoven through the diagonal slots 9 and 10 and permanentlysecured, so as to cause the belt to extend obliquely to the verticalline through the plate.

The plate 8 is further provided with a stud or button 12, permanentlysecured toa springtongue 13 cut in the plate, which stud. is fitted toremovably engage an eye-plate 14, carried by the free end 15 of the belt7. This free end 15 of the belt 7 passes through an elongated slot 16 inthe eye-plate 14 and may be adjusted by means of the clasp 17 toincrease or diminish the length of the belt.

The spring-tongue 13 serves to cause the stud or button 12 to yieldinglygrip the face of the eye-plate 14: when engaged therewith to prevent theunintentional release of the free end of the belt from the plate 8 whenattached thereto.

The plate 8 is provided with a triangular loop 18, through which thestrip which forms the straps 1 and 2 is interwoven so as to cause thestraps to extend diagonally from the plate, upon opposite sides of thevertical middle line thereof. By this arrangement the straps may beadjusted accurately with respect to each other, and when strain isbrought thereon they are held against slipping within the triangularloop.

It will be seen that the arrangement of the parts as above described issuch that the pressure incident to the holding up of the stockings isbrought to bear against the abdomen of the wearer, the connectionbetween the supporting-straps and the belt being entirely independent ofthe corset of the wearer, thus permitting the parts to readily adjustthemselves to different positions which the wearer may assume. Thisarrangement entirely obviates the liability of a side strain upon thecorset, as has been found objectionable when the supporting-straps 1 and2 have been secured to the front of the corset.

WhatI claim is 1. A hose-supporter comprising a belt, a plate connectedthereto, said plate having a loop and a continuous strip interwoventhrough the loop to form a pair of stockingsupporting straps.

2. A hose-supporter comprising a belt, a plate connected thereto, saidplate having a triangular loop and. a continuous strip interwoventhrough the loop to form a pair of diverging stocking-snpporting strapsextending obliquely to a vertical line through the plate.

3. A hose-supporter comprising stockingsupporting straps, a platesecured thereto and a belt, said plate having elongated slots thereinarranged diagonally to the vertical line through the plate forpermanently securing one end of the belt to the plate, the other end ofthe belt being fitted to be removably secured to the said plate.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I have signed myname, in presence of two Witnesses, this 30th day of June, 1902.

LOUIS A. NEGRAVAL.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, O. S. SUNDGREN.

